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Have you ever noticed how iOS apps start almost instantly in comparison to Android apps? There is a trick to that. iOS applications have a file traditionally called Default.png that includes a 320×480 pixel image of the first screen of the application. So you are treated to an “illusion” of the application instantly coming to life and filling up with data, this is pretty cool on the surface but is a source to no end of trouble in iOS and ..
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We are passionate about creating an IT environment that is a more welcoming place for minorities and underrepresented groups. One way we do that is by working hard to bring more women into technology. You know what happens when we succeed? A revolution!
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1. What is a Java program? a) A collection of classes b) A collection of objects talking to other objects by invoking each others methods c) A template that describes the kinds of state and behavior that objects of its type support 2. Java components are: a) types b) classes c) variables d) objects e) instances f) methods 3. What is inheritance? a) Code defined in one class can not be reused in other classes ..
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Cloud files are a great pro feature that we didn’t emphasize enough, its remarkably useful. It allows you to upload a file into the cloud which you can then transfer to anyone thru a simple “obfuscated” URL. The URL is long so the probability of someone guessing it is low, hence its pretty secure for private file transfer (if its really private you should use bouncy castle ). The API couldn’t be simpler:
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I’m excited to announce that SoundCloud is sponsoring the development of CocoaPods through a Travis Foundation grant. CocoaPods is an open…
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I’m excited to announce that SoundCloud is sponsoring the development of CocoaPods through a Travis Foundation grant. CocoaPods is an open…
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This week I finished what will probably be the last map in the Kickstarter demo. It teaches the player about the "extended wall-run" ability, demonstrated here: Normally, you hold Shift to wall-run. Now you can just keep holding Shift after you run out of wall, and you'll keep going. I also fixed the water bugs from last week, so it looks much better now: I've been worried that I don't have time in the demo to introduce eve..
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Introduction As I improve my knowledge and framework for a Go based web service I am building, I continue to go back and enhance my Beego Sample App . Something I just added recently was providing localized messages for validation errors. I was fortunate to find Nick Snyder's go-i18n package. Nick's package made it easy to support multiple languages for the Go web service I am writing. Abstracting go-i18n The go-i18n packa....
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When I first came to University lots of people (like Rob Miles ) were trying to get undergraduates to start blogging. On the 6th of March 2012 I registered this domain and started blogging, getting myself added to the awesome Hull Compsci blogs syndicate. That was two years ago and a lot has changed...
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When I first came to University lots of people (like Rob Miles ) were trying to get undergraduates to start blogging. On the 6th of March 2012 I registered this domain and started blogging, getting myself added to the awesome Hull Compsci blogs syndicate. That was two years ago and a lot has changed...
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So I’ve recently been using lots of VM’s and I end up getting through them fairly quickly – deleting and creating them regularly. What I ended up with was loads of ghost services in the portal that were, once upon a time, associated with a VM in the distant past. Given PowerShell is awesome, I set about automating the removal of these using the azure cmdlts. The trick is that I don’t want to remove services or VM’s that are currently “S..
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Here are the slides of some of my previous presentations (that I haven’t made public yet, other than delivering these at conferences and training sessions): Scripts and Tools That Make Your Life Easier and Help to Troubleshoot Better: I delivered this presentation at the Hotsos Symposium Training Day in year 2010: Troubleshooting Complex Performance Issues – Part1:
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Here are the slides of some of my previous presentations (that I haven’t made public yet, other than delivering these at conferences and training sessions): Scripts and Tools That Make Your Life Easier and Help to Troubleshoot Better: I delivered this presentation at the Hotsos Symposium Training Day in year 2010: Troubleshooting Complex Performance Issues – Part1:
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Lets Start With What the USD is backed by The USD is no longer backed by gold 1 , but by a promise that the US Government will pay its debt (in the form of payment the interest on (and sometime redeem) government securities when due). If these payments are not made to the debt holders (Corporations, China, treasury-bond holders) then a default would occur, which would shift international use of the USD into other currencies. This would f....
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Git is something most of us, as developers, can't live without. However, Git may also behave like a double-edged sword, especially for less-than-seasoned developers like me, who inevitably ended up doing something stupid to my Git repository.
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Welcome to Part 2 of our ongoing series where we interview testing luminaries to provide insight into the current and future states of the testing industry. Lorinda Brandon (@lindybrandon) has more than 30 years of experience in quality assurance working for companies such as SmartBear, RR Donnelley, EMC, Kayak Software, Exit41 and Intuit, among others.
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On Exadata (or when setting cell_offload_plan_display = always on non-Exadata) you may see the storage() predicate in addition to the usual access() and filter() predicates in an execution plan: SQL> SELECT * FROM dual WHERE dummy = 'X'; D - X Check the plan: SQL> @ x Display execution plan for last statement for this session from library cache... PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT ---------------------------------------------------------------------....
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On Exadata (or when setting cell_offload_plan_display = always on non-Exadata) you may see the storage() predicate in addition to the usual access() and filter() predicates in an execution plan: SQL> SELECT * FROM dual WHERE dummy = 'X'; D - X Check the plan: SQL> @ x Display execution plan for last statement for this session from library cache... PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT ---------------------------------------------------------------------....
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I recently came across JSCS and thought it would be a great addition to our git flow to enforce consistent code style for all of our JavaScript code. JSCS is a code style checker for JavaScript. It lets you decide if you prefer your if’s with or without a space after them; if you’re OK with declaring multiple variables with one var keyword; if your lines shouldn’t go over 80 characters; etc. A lot of it is a matter of taste of course, b....
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Our role is to make IT more responsive to market requirements by blending product, marketing and IT teams together.” Nigel Dalton, Chief Information Officer, REA Group. This is the foundational principle for innovation and market performance at REA Group, a global online real estate advertising company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
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At Thoughtworks New York we decided to follow other offices’ steps and hosted a Rails Girls event the last weekend of January.
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Tomorrow morning at three o’clock, I will wake up three hours earlier than normal; within sixty minutes of getting out of bed, I will be on my way to the Pittsburgh International Airport; five hours after awakening — if all goes well, and weather permitting — my plane will take off bound for the Bahamian island of San Salvador where I will reside for a week as part of a geology class I enrolled in at the beginning of this semester. After se....
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I will include a link to this page in my upcoming Cabin Porn roundup post, but in an effort at being timely I will also do so here: the great folks over at Beaver Brook that run Cabin Porn, the main site from which I glean those cool images to fill my monthly roundups, are making a book. If you enjoyed my roundups even in the slightest, I encourage you to sign up for the book’s waiting list ; I did, and I can’t wait to give them a few doll..
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Decision making, problem solving, introducing ideas, being influencial
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juri.dev
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12 years ago
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Thoughtworks has long been associated with continuous integration. In 2000 we began using it on a large project and Matt Foemmel wrote what we think was the first CI server to help make it easier. Other people wanted the tool and through a complicated process of idea-sharing and dragging code across the US we ended up creating CruiseControl, the first publicly available CI server.
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Companies that aspire to achieve competitive advantage by using data as a key asset must build their execution plan around two phases, as described by HBR bloggers Redman & Sweeney:
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We recently introduced the corporate server option which is seeing initial deployments right now. As part of that we are now publishing the install guide to the general public, if you are considering the option of purchasing a corporate server but aren’t sure about the process of install you can follow the instructions here . In other news you might recall in a recent blog post I mentioned
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Although written in the same vein as all those articles about Tim Cook where the collective discourse was invariably framed by the comparison to Steve Jobs and his legacy, published for much too long after Tim became Apple’s latest CEO, here such a format actually felt appropriate as the author — taking from Yukari Kane’s upcoming book Haunted Empire, Apple After Steve Jobs — did so to contrast the two very different leadership styles of ..
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This is a guest post by my colleague Adam Lelkes. The goal of this primer is to introduce an important and beautiful tool from probability theory, a model of fair betting games called martingales. In this post I will assume that the reader is familiar with the basics of probability theory. For those that need to refresh their knowledge, Jeremy’s excellent primers (1, 2) are a good place to start.
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This is a guest post by my colleague Adam Lelkes. The goal of this primer is to introduce an important and beautiful tool from probability theory, a model of fair betting games called martingales. In this post I will assume that the reader is familiar with the basics of probability theory. For those that need to refresh their knowledge, Jeremy’s excellent primers (1, 2) are a good place to start.
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This is a guest post by my colleague Adam Lelkes. The goal of this primer is to introduce an important and beautiful tool from probability theory, a model of fair betting games called martingales. In this post I will assume that the reader is familiar with the basics of probability theory. For those that need to refresh their knowledge, Jeremy’s excellent primers (1, 2) are a good place to start.
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Incredible — I can only imagine what it’s like to drive in this race, at these speeds, on this terrain, and in these vehicles. Definitely adding this one to my bucket list; wow. Permalink.
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Fantastic take ostensibly on the problems facing podcasters with regards to discoverability, but in reality a thinly-veiled critique of all those who complain about having the greatest undiscovered app, show, or website rather than focusing their efforts on bringing that undoubtedly exquisite labor of love to a broader audience. I have fallen into this trap in the past, so having a slap-in-the-face reality check like this one to keep me foc..
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Very few people actually enjoy Mondays. If you’re in the majority, I’ve got the cure for you: check out Andy Martin on Vimeo , where he posts delightfully weird short animations. My favorite is easily Selfie , and if you enjoy that one The Welsh Egg Choir and his The Plants series are both great ways to spend a few extra minutes blissfully unaware of the drudgery that is the first in a long succession of nine-to-five days. Enjoy. P..
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Just as early nineteenth century Americans took Britain’s manufacturing process, improved upon it, and quickly outpaced the nation from which they originally learned from, so too it appears China learned from the early mistakes that befell American internet companies, improved upon their flaws, and now seeks to outpace the country from which they drew those original lessons. So says this article from Digits to Dollars , anyway, and after r....
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This is my fourth teardown of Ingress. If you don't know what these are, here is my first one. This one is very late, due to a couple of reasons. I was late getting the new apk. I was busy. I found nothing major on my first look,
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Is "Fake It 'Til You Make It" The Reason We're So Screwed?
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The “fake it ’till you make it” mentality and impostor syndrome are closely linked, in that the former is often cited as a solution to the latter. Especially in the creative professions, where impostor syndrome seems nearly as common as clicky keyboards, many advocate overriding that feeling of inadequacy with a philosophy that accepts it as a given and pushes you past it: you may feel like an impostor — a fake — but that’s okay, because yo....
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I have long wanted for a place I could link to great podcasts and point out particularly spectacular episodes, but neither my site nor my now-deceased newsletter seemed like the appropriate venue for such posts. Nevertheless, for especially noteworthy shows, I have broken this unspoken rule and linked to Exponent’s The Garbage Truck Song , for example, and The Weekly Briefly’s A Writing Guide . Yet although I did occasionally point out an..
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